BOX OFFICE: DJANGO UNCHAINED Opens Overseas With $48.1 Million

Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained has opened overseas with an impressive $48.1 million, making it the #1 movie at the international box office. However, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters beat it in one of the territories it opened in this weekend. Read on for details!

Despite snowy conditions in certain parts of Europe, Django Unchained has kicked off its international run at least 30% ahead of Quentin Tarantino's last movie Inglorious Basterds in many of the 54 markets it opened in this weekend. The film has taken an impressive $48.1 million, meaning that it has stolen away the top spot from Life of Pi at the international box office. It is at #1 in at least 23 markets right now and this total is added to the current domestic cume of over $130 million (which alone has made it the highest grossing Tarantino film ever in North America after it opened on Christmas Day). However, in Russia, it was beaten by Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. Be sure to stay tuned to CBM for all of the latest box office news and updates!

Set in the South two years before the Civil War, "Django Unchained" stars Academy Award®-winner Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Academy Award®-winner Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. The unorthodox Schultz acquires Django with a promise to free him upon the capture of the Brittles – dead or alive.

Success leads Schultz to free Django, though the two men choose not to go their separate ways. Instead, Schultz seeks out the South’s most wanted criminals with Django by his side. Honing vital hunting skills, Django remains focused on one goal: finding and rescuing Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), the wife he lost to the slave trade long ago.

Django and Schultz’s search ultimately leads them to Calvin Candie (Academy Award®-nominee Leonardo DiCaprio), the proprietor of “Candyland,” an infamous plantation where slaves are groomed by trainer Ace Woody (Kurt Russell) to battle each other for sport. Exploring the compound under false pretenses, Django and Schultz arouse the suspicion of Stephen (Academy Award®-nominee Samuel L. Jackson), Candie’s trusted house slave. Their moves are marked, and a treacherous organization closes in on them. If Django and Schultz are to escape with Broomhilda, they must choose between independence and solidarity, between sacrifice and survival...

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